What are the roles of the museums ? Who is the owner of antiquity ? Does museums encourage cultural handshake ?
I am sure most people who have been to a museum must have fell in love with it. Museums can hardly be a boring place, even though some of them can be long and time consuming exploration. Most people just fall into expected conversations with distant, ancient culture on display there. They are a colossal encyclopedic storehouse of universal knowledge.
Museums are time machines, in the sense that one could just walk past the human evolution [or evolution of the universe as a whole]. Museums are rare places where all religions sit side-by-side and tell its story to the generations in peace. Museum is the place where one could explore and see and dissect the facts and relive the ancient world and its brutal wars.
Nowadays, there is a dangerous trend that is happening around the world among most of the countries that they treat their antiquities as their own properties and their birth right to have them instead of placing them in any museums, making sure general public should get the opportunity to study and learn from it. Many nations consider museums as treasure houses of imperial plunders. Here comes the important. Can antiquity be hold as a emblem or personal property by a country ? It is not the case, every antiquities, even if it belongs to their ancestors, is the property of the world – a thing of common interest. They should understand that museums encourage others to know their heritage and culture and there by, promotes a well-knit world with enriched people.
A museum is a place of ideas, not ideologies.
